[Novalug] Nagios & IBM RSA II and new IBM servers

[Ben Creitz]

On 6/19/07, Nick Danger <nick at hackermonkey.com> wrote:
> I have some new servers with the IBM RSA II cards. REALLY nice cards, Im
> very impressed. Problem is I cant think of a way to monitor these
> servers with Nagios and watch the hardware itself.  The servers are (I
> think?) 3550 models. Their basic 1U with two hot swap drives in a RAID 1
> config. I have to find the tool to watch the raid set for failed drives
> still, but I was hoping there was also a way I can watch for stuff like
> power supply failure (dual PSs) RAM failures, etc.  I can watch the
> errors on the RSA II card, and configure SNMP traps via the card, but I
> was hoping for some command line tool to watch the HW status via a
> shell, then just do monitor over SSH with Nagios like I do for most
> everything else :-)  Otherwise I'll have to go back to the SNMP monitor
> via Nagios, which works but I dont think is very elegant.
>
> Anyone else working with one of these servers? Are you monitoring it?

Are hw events logged?  You can find out where and write something to
check the logs for new events.

Ben